The "all novels are sequels" quote from Chabon comes from the very end of his essay "Fan Fictions: On Sherlock Holmes," collected in Maps & Legends.
Jonathan Lethem's "The Ecstasy of Influence:"
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The first passage I read in the review appears early in Part II, page 58 in the clothbound Penguin Classics edition I'm waving around, and goes:
"Her mind was already made up. Some romantic novel, a stray remark never forgotten, a sketch, a picture, a song, a waltz, some note of music, and her ideas were fixed. About England and about Europe. I could not change them and probably nothing would. Reality might disconcert her, bewilder her, hurt her, but it would not be reality. It would be only a mistake, a misfortune, a wrong path taken, her fixed ideas would never change.
Nothing that I told her influenced her at all."
The second passage comes from the last pages of Part II, page 111 in my edition:
"I was tired of these people. I disliked their laughter and their tears, their flattery and envy, conceit and deceit. And I hated the place.
I hated the mountains and the hills, the rivers and the rain. I hated the sunsets of whatever colour, I hated its beauty and its magic and the secret I would never know. I hated its indifference and the cruelty which was part of its loveliness. About all I hated her. For she belonged to the magic and the loveliness. She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it.
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